"Being sexy is not something I think about. It's not part of my
day-to-day reality when I'm home walking my dog. It's not like I'm
going, 'God, I'm sexy.' If I ever said that out loud, my dog would
certainly look up at me and say, 'Don't go there.' "
--Karl Urban (Eomer)
"I was a nice, soft pillow for Sean [Bean]."
--Orlando Bloom
VIGGO: We were lucky in that the cast bonded. It could have gone the other way, y'know, a year and a half. You could have hated each other by the end but the opposite was true.
ORLI: I love them, we love each other. We see each other when we can come to the same (something) or we're in the same town. This film has been huge. When we get together, we love to hang out, y'know, I love seeing Vig, y'know, and I love to see the hobbits and I love to see everyone -- Liv, Ian -- but it's just the nature of being an actor is that you're not often in one place for very long so it's often difficult to stay together but we got tattoos. That should be enough for everyone to... (they cut him off)
--LOTR INTERVIEW
*Guess he likes to talk, huh? LOL!*
Lizo: How many breakfasts do hobbits have?
Billy Boyd: Two breakfasts, couple of lunches, a few dinners and maybe
a supper.
Lizo: And how do you manage to keep looking so slim?
Billy Boyd: Well hobbits run around to try and destroy rings quite a
lot.
--Lizo interviews Billy Boyd
Press release: Viggo Mortensen categorically denies laying charges against Orlando Bloom, for assault and spreading jelly on the bloke. Orlando Bloom (Orli) is his co-star in the Lord of the Ring trilogy. Viggo, stated that he was misquoted by the press.
"What I actually said was that I was "paying" charges! Orli likes his
condiments and the caterer on set charged extra for these
things...so, I was paying Orli's charges for salt, spread and jelly,
coz he was broke! It continually surprises me how out of hand these
rumours can get."
-Viggo correcting the press
'I really like kissing girls, because men's moustaches get in the way'
- Dominic knows who he wants to kiss
"I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my
relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational
hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get
mad cows disease."
~ Dominic
"Stubbing fags out on my tongue. There's an area on your tongue that's
quite numb, and you swill saliva onto it before stubbing. It hurts like a
bugger if you miss, mind."
~ Sean Bean tells us his favourite party trick
"He was just so giving and gracious," says 25-year-old actor Orlando Bloom,
who recalls Mortensen letting him upstage him in at
least one scene. "For a young actor starting out in the film
industry, he was the most fantastic education I could have had."
~ Orlando Talks About Viggo
"It's quite green where I live in Hampstead, north London,
and I like to spend time in my garden. It takes my mind off things. I
look after my trees, making sure they're okay and enjoy planting oak,
hornbeams and silver birch."
~ What Sean Bean does on a day off
Dom: “We all went through this incredible experience together. I made some great friends - Billy Boyd, Ian McKellan and Orlando Bloom. I also became very good friends with Sean Bean - he's bonkers, you know!”
Sean: "I had so many embarrassing moments while filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy. One of the worst is from the third movie. I was sitting in Rivendell, an elf paradise, and an 80-pound wooden prop fell and landed on my head. The crew raced over and picked the thing off my head and I came to. A lump started growing, and the wig that was glued to my head lifted up and started pulling off. I got a CAT scan and luckily, I had no brain damage. The neurologist said I had a very large brain, though. I'm proud about that."
One of the most amusing moments was during the press conference in the morning when this particular Australian media "supa sta" was dominating the conversation and asking inane questions. This little bleached blonde thing asked the actors if they had read the book. Hello...
Elijah Wood asked her if she had read the book and her response was "Erm, no, it had too many big words in it." Like a fox, Elijah retorted with: "Perhaps you should go and buy a dictionary and thesaurus and try again."
Orlando:" Viggo(Mortensen) will go on about Elves and how they're always doing their nails and brushing their long, blonde hair and being all prissy. And I just say: 'Well, at least I'm going to live forever! Got that? LIVE FOREVER!"
Orlando:"[Everyone in LOTR] got a memo saying New Line was asking that nobody bungee jump, skydive whitewater raft, et cetera."
On what he did for fun in New Zealand:
"I'd been in Queenstown for like an hour and I walked up this mountain and bungee jumped."
DOMS QUOTES--------- "Went to the beach for the day and wrote as much as I could about this incredible experience and where my life seemed to be taking me, etc. I fell asleep, and when I woke up the papers were blowing down the beach and into the water. I sat up and watched until I couldn't see one piece of paper left. I drove home and felt happy."
"They're boxer shorts. Make sure you get that right. I don't want anyone thinking I wear anything else."
"Everyone had a nickname [on the LOTR set] and I didn't and I always used to joke with the boys saying "I want one, I want one!!" Orli has a idiosyncratic way of talking and from about half way into the movie he called me sblomie... pronounced... Sblom-e as in Domie but take away the do and add sblo..clear?"
"I just talk instead; that's my thing. My talent is for making people laugh. That's why so many of my friends are girls. I really enjoy their company. Actually, it's a bit disconcerting. The other day I did a test at the back of a book called Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps. I came out as being the most feminine man ever. Outrageous!"
On playing Cup (from FOTR DVD cast commentary): "I would just like to say that it's an original Dominic Monaghan game, available online at my website, and you can use different cups, but if you want you can log onto my website and get an official Cup cup."
On playing Tig, a fake game they made up to fool Elijah (from FOTR DVD cast commentary): "So we would play. The three of us [Dom, Sean and Billy] were constantly getting it right. Every time. Elijah tried a new way of tigging someone, we'd say "No Elijah, you can't tig on a tog" "You can't tag on a tig" "You have to do an elephant impression if you're gonna tig Billy and if Billy's going to tig you back you have to get on your knees and take your trousers down... and for like three weeks he [Elijah] was saying how much he enjoyed playing Tig."
"The lovely Liv is here now. I am convincing her to go out for a quick bite. I'm sure she can't resist." (about Liv Tyler)
"Went home and tried to make a cake, but the oven broke so I ate raw cake mix, watched TV, felt sick, and went to Billy's."
"Yesterday Billy and I got picked up at 5 am and were driven to Mount Cook for a scene where we get buried in snow. We rode down the slopes on shovels."
"Viggo left a long message on my machine. He leaves these kind of stream-of-consciousness messages on your machine, like, "Yeah, this is Viggo, I'm eating chicken, I'm wearing blue trousers, the sun is shining..." I always save the messages."
On the practical jokes they played on the set of LOTR: "[giggles] Elijah and I were the worst. We teamed up against Orlando and Sean Bean. It was the hobbits versus the humans, seeing who could trash each other's trailer the most! They scored the first points by taping up the whole of my trailer with tape one night so I couldn't get in and they also covered everything on the inside of it with shaving foam."
On their revenge for these incidents: "[giggles again] Me and Elijah made soem fake dogs poo and covered the stairs to Orlando's trailer with it. We also sprayed all over the inside of his trailer with shaving foam and then squirted hairspray all over the taps so everything was sticky!"
On whether the Hobbits are gay (I hope these comments by Dominic and Billy weren't taken out of context, but whatever the circumstances, they are pretty amusing):
"Sure, why not? We did everything together. We even showered together."
Billy: "Oh! Why did you have to go and tell them that? We did once, but I like to keep to try to keep it in the back of my mind."
Dominic: "I think there's a nice kind of loving, close friendship that goes on, a kind of unconditional love between the hobbits. But I think it's their hobbity nature. I think they are all like that. They are very caring and free and open with their emotions. As a sweeping generalization, it is something that you can associate with gay people."
Billy: "But I don't think they are gay, not totally gay, because they get married at the end. It's in the appendices of the book, and not the actual stories. Tolkien did say Merry was the gayest of all hobbits."
Dominic: "Some people think I'm called Mary."
Billy "But do you have a little lamb?"
On the fireworks scene at Bilbo's Birthday party when Merry and Billy are blackened up (from FOTR DVD cast commentary): "This next shot of us guys coming up after the fireworks. It took them about forty minutes to change our looks. And we came out singing "Chim Chimney" from Mary Poppins and looking like chimney sweeps."
On the departure from Rivendell (from FOTR DVD cast commentary): "There was talk very early on in kind of, as a joke, of Elvish women weeping because Merry and Pippin were leaving, because we've been kind of their sugar daddies for the last few weeks we've been hanging around."
Billy: "And we liked the idea that some of them might be pregnant and stuff."
Dom: "Yeah, holding onto their tummies going "don't go. don't go." It's okay, we'll try and be back in nine months time."
Billy: "For some reason Pete [Jackson] never went for that."
"It grieves me to say, but when there is an elf and a dwarf in a training boat, and the boat capsizes, the blame is on the dwarf."
-John Rhys-Davies (on boat training with Orlando)
Dom-"It's not just my tongue that's bad. My spleen once stole 100 dollars from a 7/11."
Dom-"I am wearing said suit right now. No shoes. Covered head to toe with honey, trying to attached myself to a beach tree whilst singing 'Come All Ye Faithful'!"
On Merry and Pippin over indulging on Lembas bread (from FOTR DVD cast commentary): "Obviously Merry and Pippin have filled their stomachs with Lembas bread and I think they've both come to the realization that they think their stomachs are just going to explode within the next hour or so, the last hour of their life. Very, very funny."
